Image-guided radiotherapy reduces the risk of under-dosing high-risk prostate cancer extra-capsular disease and improves biochemical control

Per Munck af Rosenschold, Michael J. Zelefsky, Aditya P. Apte, Andrew Jackson, Jung Hun Oh, Elliot Shulman, Neil Desai, Margie Hunt, Pirus Ghadjar, Ellen Yorke, Joseph O. Deasy

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Abstract

Background: To determine if reduced dose delivery uncertainty is associated with daily image-guidance (IG) and Prostate Specific Antigen Relapse Free Survival (PRFS) in intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) of high-risk prostate cancer (PCa). Methods: Planning data for consecutive PCa patients treated with IMRT (n = 67) and IG-IMRT (n = 35) was retrieved. Using computer simulations of setup errors, we estimated the patient-specific uncertainty in accumulated treatment dose distributions for the prostate and for posterolateral aspects of the gland that are at highest risk for extra-capsular disease. Multivariate Cox regression for PRFS considering Gleason score, T-stage, pre-treatment PSA, number of elevated clinical risk factors (T2c+, GS7+ and PSA10+), nomogram-predicted risk of extra-capsular disease (ECD), and dose metrics was performed. Results: For IMRT vs. IG-IMRT, plan dosimetry values were similar, but simulations revealed uncertainty in delivered dose external to the prostate was significantly different, due to positioning uncertainties. A patient-specific interaction term of the risk of ECD and risk of low dose to the ECD (p = 0.005), and the number of elevated clinical risk factors (p = 0.008), correlate with reduced PRFS. Conclusions: Improvements in PSA outcomes for high-risk PCa using IG-IMRT vs. IMRT without IG may be due to improved dosimetry for ECD.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number64
JournalRadiation Oncology
Volume13
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 12 2018

Keywords

  • High risk disease
  • IMRT
  • Image-guided
  • Prostate cancer
  • Radiotherapy
  • Tumor control probability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Oncology
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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